∞ Toy Story 3 Flash Web site design, not so good for the iPad

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Steve Jobs did say that Flash was a PC technology, so it probably doesn’t matter that the Toy Story 3 Web site is built using the technology. However, considering Steve’s distain for the technology on Apple’s portable devices and taking into account his position at Disney, you would think that some effort would have been made to make the site work with the iPad.

Image courtesy John Gruber, Daring Fireball.

You can add Pixar’s own site to the list too. It also doesn’t do well on the iPad.

Thanks for the screenshot Andy.

Update: Added the screenshot from Pixar.com. 05/10/2010 9:26 am.


  • Eric

    Well, to be fair, they people designing the website are no doubt aware of the future path they will be taking. But would it be unreasonable to expect them to rejigger a website of such magnitude (Disney) in two weeks? I've been developing online course material for two and a half years on Flash. And we're just about finished with round one. But it's not like we could just up and change our class material overnight. Even if we now have our executives breathing down our necks to come up with our courses in a format that our Asain, African and Indian students can view on their cellphones. Because for many of them, that is their portal to the Internet.

  • iphonerulez

    Whenever you come across a site like this, you should automatically contact the site developer and tell them their site is broken for hand-held mobile users and they should get their act together.

  • http://intensedebate.com/profiles/deanlewis Dean Lewis

    Flash won't be way ahead of it if Adobe don't get their act together and fix its problems, which range from CPU hogging to not even working on any mobile device yet.

    As for redirecting people to a less interactive website, I hope they can still get to all the information on the site. In fact, I would personally prefer such a site. Maybe I'm old school, but the Web is about the information, not the fact that you can wrap the information in blinking stars and make funny noises while I try to access and read it.

    I still have to design my sites so they work with IE 6, much as I hate it and despite it's only about 10% of browsers now, because one lost customer or one association member who can't access info means lost money. I'm glad your clients can afford to lose potential customers. Must be nice.